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RecontuerSG_258
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Feb 01, 2017

Can current 2000s H.A with i2600?

Dear all, Although current platforms are not EOS yet, according to past trends, the 2000s should be announcing EOS sometime this year. (My suspicions only, no official statements from F5)

 

The question is: Some company insisted on buying 2000s today because of serious budget concerns. Later end of the year or 2 years later, they would like to buy i2000 series considering 2000s will be EOS by then.

 

Can these two different platforms do a HA via network? Both 2000 and iSeries support 12.1.1 so in near future for software, may not be much of an issue. The predicted End of New Software Support for 2000s could be in 2019.

 

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  • JoshBecigneul's avatar
    JoshBecigneul
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    Feb 01, 2017

    This should work. It may not be ideal, but it is certainly possible, thanks to TMOS taking care of all the hard work in this respect. The systems will complain that the other node is a different hardware type via the LTM log, but they should still synchronize and perform HA failover.

     

    Another thing to keep in mind is that the provisioned modules will have to match in order to not experience an outage during a failover (it's easy for the unweary to not notice the difference, especially if they don't log into the second unit), and that the various platforms may have different performance characteristics that you will have to account for as you are deploying applications.

     

    I would still run this past my sales team or support to verify whether there would be any compatibility issues.